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Surrounded by breathtaking limestone karsts that adds excitement  to not so easily accessible  amazing beaches and serpentine  mangrove   forests , Krabi along the Thailand's Andaman coast is home to a racial, religious and gender diverse community of Buddhist Thais, Chinese Thais, Muslims, and Thai Sea Gypsies who generously extend a very warm Thai hospitality to visitors.   As for visitors,  they are mostly Europeans, Chinese, and Russians on package holidays here, along with the occasional American, Arab, Indian or other Asian travelers. This place in one way is a crazy tribute to alcohol, the scantily dressed, and the massage trade. The fact that the predominant Muslim community in this area puts up with all this is one of Krabi’s most perplexing features. Pure speculation suggests that money answers this riddle.  Day 9: Krabi After attending  the tsunami memorial at Phi Phi Island Village we took a long tail to the Ton Sai Pier to...

Not as soft as cloud-like sand in the Caribbean, but as white and warm as their Caribbean counterparts, even more curvy coastlines, secluded beaches and stunning jungle interiors with ever changing gem-tone clear waters with abundant ocean life that leave you mesmerized but question your selfish decision to be an intruder among masses that pollute this clearly endangered piece of paradise on earth. Some places are just meant to be left alone. Day 7: Koh Phi Phi Don We fly out of Chiang Mai to Krabi. It takes about two hours but land earlier than expected at about 1:30pm on Christmas eve of 2017. We had planned the day with Joy at Andaman Camp and Cruise . They whisk us from Krabi Airport to Ao Nang pier where the private charter manned by Beu and accompanied by his assistant Aong waiting for us. The overcast definitely kept things cooler and the rest of the day very pleasant. Somewhere in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean Leaving Ko Poda and Koh Poda Nok (Chi...